Community profiling and gene expression of fungal assimilatory nitrate reductases in agricultural soil

ISME Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1771-1783

  Gorfer, Markus ^a,b   Blumhoff, Marzena ^b   Klaubauf, Sylvia ^b,d   Urban, Alexander ^c   Inselsbacher, Erich ^c,e   Bandian, Dragana ^a   Mitter, Birgit ^a   Sessitsch, Angela ^a   Wanek, Wolfgang ^c   Strauss, Joseph ^a,b  

^a AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d CBS KNAW FUNGAL BIODIVERSITY CENTRE   (Netherlands)

^e SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

agriculture; fungi; gene expression; nitrate assimilation; nitrate reductase; soil

Indexed keywords

NITRATE; NITRATE REDUCTASE; NITROGEN; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE;

AGRICULTURAL SOIL; BIOMONITORING; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DATABASE; DENITRIFICATION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FUNGUS; GENE EXPRESSION; NITRATE; NITROGEN CYCLE; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM; ENZYMOLOGY; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGUS; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; NITROGEN FIXATION; PHYLOGENY;

BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM; FUNGI; GENES, FUNGAL; NITRATE REDUCTASES; NITRATES; NITROGEN; NITROGEN FIXATION; PHYLOGENY; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI;

EID: 80054765049     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2011.53     Document Type: Article

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